Sliding door.



No. 738,075. PATENTED swan-1, 1 903.

W. W. SOHOULERL SLIDING DOOR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 30. 1902.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 1, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

SLIDING DOOR.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 738,075, dated September 1, 1903.

Application filed August 30, 1902. Serial No. 121,623. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM WALLACE SCHOULER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glenridge, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sliding Doors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to secure improved sanitary conditions in a stable or barn,provide more effectually against drafts, and prevent aloss of heat therein; to provide a neat, durable, and inexpensive windproof slideway or guide for the bottom of a door,

, and to obtain other advantages and results,

some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved stable door and doorway and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both of the figures, Figure l is a vertical section showing a door suspended over a concrete bed forming a part of a doorway of a stable, barn, or the like; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the relation of parts more clearly.

In said drawings, 0 indicates a barn or stable door of the sliding variety. This may be suspended from the top of the doorway in any suitable manner, wheeled hangers being employed, preferably, to suspend said doors and permit of an easy opening and closing in any suitable manner. The sill of the doorway is of concrete 1), the concrete preferably exten ding into the stable or barn to the stalls thereof and out from the stable-door to the street, road, or elsewhere. lVithin said concrete floor or bed I), immediately beneath the door, is embedded a weather-strip,receptacle, or guide for the door. Said guide is preferably of metal strips 0 0, having the intermediate blocks d,the latter beingbolted or otherwise fastened between the outer strips 0 c and being vertically narrower than said strips 0 0, so as to form at the top a narrow groove 6 to receive a flange or weather-strip f attached to the bottom of the door. Said guide extends downward through the finishing or top course I) of the concrete and through the coarser lower course If to the porous ashes b forming the foundation of the concrete, and thus any water entering the groove may pass freely'downward between the separated blocks (Z (1 into the ashes, whence it may sink into the ground below the frost-line. The weather strip or plate fis also of metal, somewhat thinner than the width of the groove e, and is thus free to slide in said groove, and when wind-pressure is brought to bear on the door from the outside the said strip or plate forms a close joint with the innermost guide-strip 0, so that air is excluded and the loss of heat due to the entrance of cold air is avoided. The strips 0 0, being ap proximately flush with the top of the concrete, present no obstruction to the wheeling in or out of the carriages, &c., and the plate f serves to remove any matter which mighttend to clog the groove. The heads or ends of the bolts h, which unite the guide-strips, extend into the coarser concrete, and thus are held rigidly and firmly in place, so that the guide is prevented from rising from its concrete seat or from being forced down into the ground or ashes of the foundation.-

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. The combination with the door having a weather-strip at its loweredge, of a bed of concrete, a guide embedded in said concrete having at the top a groove to receive the weatherstrip, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the door, of a bed of concrete having a grooved guide embedded therein, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the door, of a flooring or bed of concrete extending through the doorway and a guide embedded in said concrete and held in place by projections seated in said concrete, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with the bed of concrete, of guide-strips blocked apart and extending through said concrete to permit drainage, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with the concrete bed, of guide-strips c, 0, bolts h, and separatingblocks (Z, the said bolts extending through the blocks and strips and into the concrete at opposite ends, substantially as set forth.

6. A sliding door suspended from above and provided at its lower edge with a shoe having a tongue, in combination with a guide- Way countersunk in the floor, said tongue being adapted to slide in said guideway, substantially as set forth.

7. A sliding door suspended from above and provided at its lower edge with a shoe having atongue, in combination with a guide- Way countersunk in the fioor, said guideway being provided with openings in the bottom and said tongue being adapted to slide in said guideway, substantially as set forth;

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of August, 1902.

WILLIAM WALLACE SCHOULER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, RUssELL M. EVERETT. 

